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- Introduction
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Abstract: The essays in this volume address interlinked themes of colonialism, abolitionism, racial capitalism, and settlement. Violence appears here in many forms: in state forms of punishment, transgression, colonization or resistance; in the violence of imposed identities, and in the violence of confining racialized groups to positions of subordination or exploitation. Some of these essays draw our attention to intimate forms of violence—or the violence inserted into the most intimate links—while others emphasize forms of violence emerging from radical divides and differences almost impossible to bridge. But alongside their analyses of slavery, dispossession, racial punitive systems, and other structures of injustice ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Policing Animal: Towards a Critique of Punitive Humanism
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Abstract: To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere.In recent years, discussion of the apparatuses of policing and punishment across the globe has surged. Activists and public figures have debated the benefits and shortcomings of police, prisons, and penality, with abolitionist perspectives entering public consciousness to an exceptional degree.2 Political theorists have been important figures in the background (and sometimes foreground) of these debates on punishment and abolition with post-structuralist thinkers such as Michel Foucault3 and Jacques Derrida4 taking up critical perspectives on imprisonment and execution ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Facing the Systemic Crisis: The Divide in Criticism of the Pandemic State
of Emergency-
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Abstract: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 disease a pandemic.1 Two months later, by May 10, 2020, 99 state governments had declared a state of emergency.2 States of emergency are most often accompanied by criticism.3 Where civil contestation of the measures was not consistently limited, as in China, this criticism took different forms.4 While in some countries people objected that state intervention came too late, in many states people criticized the intervention itself.5 In what follows, rather than compare pandemic states of emergency and their critiques across nations, I will focus mainly on the German context. What is striking with regard to Germany (but also, for instance ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Refusing Child-Stealing States: Settler Capitalism and the Ends of
Canada's Indigenous Child Removal System-
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Abstract: On March 14, 2018, Indigenous survivors of Canada's child protection system rallied in eleven cities following a call by the Sixties Scoop Network for an inaugural national Sixties Scoop day of solidarity. During the rallies, survivors critiqued Canada's $750 million Sixties Scoop settlement, which provided individual payments of less than $25,000 to a total of 24,210 First Nations and Inuit youth taken from their kin into white adoptive and foster homes between 1951 and 1991.1 Survivors spoke of their captivity in basements and forced farm labor, of abuse and racial terror, of losing their Indigenous relations before they knew them. In October 2017, Canada's Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Towards an Abolitionist Concept of Beauty: The Aesthetics of
Counter-Communities-
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Abstract: "In all jazz, and especially in the blues," James Baldwin writes in his autobiographical essay The Fire Next Time (1962), "there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and that, God help us, is exactly the way most white Americans sing them—sounding, in both cases, so helplessly, defenselessly fatuous that one dare not speculate on the temperature of the deep freeze from which issue their brave and sexless little voices."1 The reason why, for Baldwin, Black people are better at singing jazz than white people is not because of greater "sensuality" or "naturalness" that a racist discourse attributes to them, but ... Read More
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- Decolonial Mood Work
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Abstract: On October 10, 2017, the Hawai'i Community Development Authority (HCDA) indefinitely closed Kaka'ako Waterfront Park in downtown Honolulu. The 35-acre park boasts rolling hills, pavilions, fishing spots, surf areas, communities of feral chickens and cats, an unobstructed view of Lē'ahi (Diamond Head), and panoramas of the shimmering ocean. It also hosted the largest concentration of unhoused persons in Honolulu: about 180 at the time, down from a peak of 400 in 2015, many of whom were Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) or Pacific Islander. The closure purportedly was a response to a string of fires, dog attacks, and vandalism. "It's reached a point where we just can't manage it," lamented HCDA executive director Jesse ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Stripping Away the Masks of Identity: Adorno and Fanon's Negative
Dialectics-
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Abstract: I am not a prisoner of History. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence. In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.Although [the magician's] task was impersonation he did not claim to be made in the image of the invisible power, as does civilized man, whose modest hunting ground then shrinks to the unified cosmos, in which nothing exists but prey. Only when made in such an image does man attain the identity of the self which cannot be lost in identification with the other but takes possession of itself once and for all as an impenetrable mask.At first blush, Theodor Adorno ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Tocqueville on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Caribbean: The
Preemptive Dispossession and Proletarianization of Black Workers-
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Abstract: Commenting on the election of United States President James Buchanan in a letter to his friend Theodore Sedgwick III, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: "I was never an abolitionist in the ordinary sense of the term."1 Although Tocqueville did not support proposals to remunerate and distribute small plots of land to former slaves in the French Caribbean advanced by radical abolitionists like Victor Schoelcher, he nonetheless condemned slavery and crafted a plan for its end in his writings on the United States and the French Empire.2 In this paper, I analyze Tocqueville's writings on enslavement and emancipation by building on the works of scholars like W.E.B. Du Bois, Saidiya Hartman, and Kris Manjapara, who have ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Desiring an Ecological Communism' On Kohei Saito's Slow Down
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Abstract: Kōhei Saitō's Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto offers an introduction to the critique of capitalist political economy from the perspective of a form of radical degrowth. Degrowth is, in short, a politics "meant to put the brakes on capitalism run amok and bring about a type of economy that would prioritize the needs of both humanity and nature" (69). An unfortunate, (presumably publisher-induced) title change from Saitō's 2020 Capital in the Anthropocene, no review of Slow Down begins without mentioning its surprise bestseller status in Japan. It appears on the heels of Saito's two academic books that develop the case for an ecological reading of Karl Marx, built largely on his late notebooks and letters written ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Rethinking Fascism, Past and Present: A Review of Clara Mattei's The
Capital Order and Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism-
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Abstract: These books, one by Clara Mattei and the other by Alberto Toscano, challenge the commonsense division of liberalism and fascism, delivering to us important avenues of consideration for understanding reactionary politics immanent to liberal democracies across the planet. While each is interested in perceiving the rise of fascism past and present, each text contains distinctive concerns about fascism's conditions of possibility. Mattei and Toscano take common associations with fascism—capitalist economy and racial formation, respectively—to remake these seemingly typical arenas of critical fascist inquiry into productive spheres of thought connecting to conditions in the late neoliberal period. Toscano considers the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Who Cares for Care Workers' Review of Premilla Nadasen's Care: The
Highest Stage of Capitalism-
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Abstract: Premilla Nadasen writes that "[care] is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings." The care economy, Nadasen's subject in Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, is about the increasing centrality of care as a site of profit after deindustrialization and the decline of the welfare state. Nadasen's timely and sharp intervention is at once a concise history of the development of the care economy, a critique of liberal and Marxist feminist care discourse, and a speculative look at what a truly caring society might look like. Above all, Nadasen's book is concerned with practice in a double sense. First, her critique of contemporary care discourse is rooted in critiques put forward by the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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- Biographies
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Abstract: Kai Bosworth is a geographer and assistant professor of international studies in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). He can be reached at bosworthk@vcu.edu.Ryan Curnow is a recent graduate from The College of Wooster and a student of philosophy and political science. His published work in the undergraduate journals Stance and Ex Nihilo focus on a critical approach to comparative philosophy, specifically between Buddhism and modernist critique. He is interested in the intersections and productive divergences between Western and non-Western systems of thought. He ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-16T00:00:00-05:00
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